[Guide] PVE Necromancer

Hey everyone, since the forums moved and we lost all of our outdated guides, I figured "why not make a guide for a class that I no longer play?!"

So here is my guide for necromancer.

Just as a forward and warning, necromancer was my in between class between bard and lancer so it's not fully leveled or optimized, so bear with me while we pretend like mastery points are maxed out, kthanks

This is currently a work in progress and will be updated during my spare time. I've never written a class guide before, so if you have any comments/suggestions/recommendations, please feel free to post them and I'll take them into consideration

Table of Contents:

What is Necromancer?/Basics

Stats

Gear/Enchantments

Subclasses

Envoy

Masteries & Weapon Spec

Eidolons

Mounts and other goodies

1. What is Necromancer

In short, Necromancer is a scythe wielding ranged mage-like class, kind of like an off-support off-dps mixture, depending on how you play it. The class contains both debuffs and buffs, although not nearly as strong as sorcerer and bard.

Necromancers use the dark element, and while some people may enjoy ice or flame, don't.

The basic gameplay should revolve around spamming Devil Incarnate whenever the cool down is off and jump casting your way to victory in between. My personal rotation consists of Shadowbolt Barrage>Razor Wind>Devil Incarnate, and then just spam Shadowbolt Barrage until Devil Incarnate and Razor Wind are back up. You can throw in other skills like Frozen Tomb, but there's really no need unless there's a large group of mobs.

For the sake of understanding all of the essentials of DPSing I recommend going over these guides when you have a moment

Stats are pretty easy for necro as you just follow the same stat build that everyone uses.

For your Offensive Stats:

Max your SPD to 50%

Get your CRIT to at least 90%

Add to DMG

(once you're geared, you can move around your points as needed. ie. 99 in DMG, 0 in SPD, etc)

For your Defensive Stats:

Get your DEF to 80% (75% is the minimum that you want)

Move everything else into HP

Ignore EVA

(once you're geared, you can move around your points as needed. ie. 99 in HP, rest in DEF)

3. Gear

Now for the fun part. You can use whatever gear you want, go for it, enjoy your own unique build, but here is the recommended, ideal, dps gear.

1) For your weapon, you want to go with the lv. 80 crafted weapon with a dark element. Generally you'll want to get a Lava SS for it with 2% dmg as the bonus stat (if you can get 2% dmg and 6% CDMG then you'll really be in business). Generally, I'd recommend getting a Destroyer Core (20% chance of reducing a targets def by 10%) on your main weapon and a Nocturnal Core (convert 3% of damage into healing. 90% less effective against bosses) on your sub weapon. I find it just makes it easier to swap out when needed.

For weapon enchantment cards, you generally want to grab a dual drive card on both your main and sub weapon. If you're rich, grab a 9% movespeed + dual drive.

2) For your armor you're also going to want to use nice crafted gear. For lv 70 and until you can get your lv 80 gear, run with Sniper (It can be obtained through dragon points in the encyclopedia, or for free from dungeon drops, it will just be coreless).

At lv 80, you'll want to use the Lordswrath top set and bottom set as it is the most ideal for dps.

As for cores. The general consensus is that you want to use Imperial (3% move speed) for the move speed bonus that it gives. However, if you can't afford it or are unable to craft it, Bestial (DMG 1%, Max HP 1%) is perfectly fine.

For Secret Stones, you want to have one on each piece of gear with 2% DMG (once again, if you can get 6% CDMG as well, lucky you)

Next you'll want to get an Imperial Guzigula's Bloody Tooth (second trophy slot)

Lastly, you'll want an Imperial Noripan's Emerald Leaf (you'll swap this in and out with Time Travel in between bosses for a move speed boost)

The enchantments that you'll want on all of your armor are DMG 3% & DMG & Pen 1%

--Level 90 Gears will come shortly--

Costume Enchantments

(All Blue Enchantment Cards can be obtained in the Encyclopedia for 3000 Dragon Points)

For your head costume you'll want to swap it depending on the dungeon you're running by using DMG to X Element Target Enchants, as well as 10% DMG to Boss Monsters for Violent Bosses

You also want to make sure you're using 2% HP and 3% HP on your head items

On face items you want to have 2% DMG and a 3% DMG card, as well as the Bone Shield Boost

Body costumes will use 2% DMG and 3% DMG, as well as 25% CRIT DMG to Bosses

Back items will also use 2% DMG and 3% DMG, as well as Move Speed +5%

For your weapon costume you'll want 2% DMG and 3% DMG, as well as the boost to Purgatory Bats

4. Subclasses

This section is mostly up to your playstyle, however I'll outline a few of the more recommended subclasses to run with.

1) Shinobi/Shuriken

This is by far the best class for you, a necromancer, and for every other class. It offers insane dps with Razor Wind, as well as a def shred mastery and a DMG% increase mastery (whichever you can get your hands on first, we'll cover that later on). It also has a gap closer with Shadow Assault, as well as a stackable DEF Shred with Shuriken Toss.

2) Bard

I'd list this as second to shuri in terms of subclasses for necromancer. It offers 12% detail damage with 3 stacked green notes, as well as xDMG% boost with the ballad mastery. You can also use the -xDEF% mastery with Storm Song if you really want it.

3) Holy Sword

This one will require you to get up close and personal with the bosses, but that's fine since you'll get a lovely DEF Shred from a charged Dry Bones. You'll also have a gap closer with Divine Sunderance, and a pretty decent mob clear with a charged Smite. Other than that, meh.

4) Warbow/Ranger

This one isn't as great and only really has one use. Blessing of the Winds provides you with a 30% chance to Double Attack, as well as a 10% move speed boost for the duration of the buff. Other than that it doesn't bring much to the table. I guess you can use Hail of Arrows/Arrow of Light for mob clear but it's a waste of time for the most part.

For your Weapon Specialization/Weapon Mastery, you want to take the Right Path as it provides a boost to Devil Incarnate (pretend they're 70/70, rip my necro)

(at lv 60)

Where you want to put your mastery points are as follows

15 Move Speed

20 Damage to Dark target

20 Damage to Ice Targets

20 Damage to Lightning targets

20 Damage to Fire targets

30 Damage

The rest can go into either CRIT, SPD, CRIT DMG

7. Eidolons

Eidolons are pretty simple for this class. You'll preferably want to use either Hel, Yumikaze, or Verdandi because they each have a 4 second stun which is great. Hel and Yumikaze also have -DEF to targets, while Verdandi has life steal.

Ideally, you'll want to re-roll the star buffs so that they have 45% Dark Damage and 25% Attack Speed. This will allow you to boost your main skill's damage (Devil Incarnate), while maintaining cap attack speed for jump casting.

If you are unable to re-roll the star buffs due to funds or other reasons, good eidolons are Yumikaze, Eligos, Yarnaros (24% DMG, 25% attack speed).

8. Mounts and other goodies

Now that we can add stats to our mounts, this is what you'll want to go for:30% DMG to element target (you'll want to swap these out for each dungeon you run so that it's matching the element(s) of that dungeon)

30% DMG to Dark Skills (for violent bosses/mobs)

Eidolon Emblems are the next ting you'll want to get. Generally, you'll want at least 2.

1) 14% Move Speed for in between bosses

2) 14-16% Elemental Skills DMG

3) You can get DMG to X Element if you want to swap around

Food Buffs

At lv 80, you'll want to use Dreamy Heaven for the food buff

For the drink buff, you can use either Golden Latte for the detail damage due to the lack of bard (12% detail) and the lower detail dmg on ranged classes

Or if you want you can use Royal Jelly Tea for the Triple Strike effect

I've waited in limbo (I actually quit my Necro last year when Lancer came out) for a serious Necro guide like this one. The others only said something like "1. Delete your Necro" and I'd be so bummed since I actually like the class and played it blindly for a full year . Thank you SairI'll defo follow this thread.

For a guide made by someone who doesn't play the class this guide pretty decent, but I would strongly suggest a change in envoy. I'd recommend skipping the possession tile as its more for a tank build and not needed for a dps build reaper. This is the envoy I prefer, the dark inferno is really good to use because it is dark dmg, which will be boosted with a 45% dark dmg eido, as well as 30% mount and gaia emblem if used.

For a guide made by someone who doesn't play the class this guide pretty decent, but I would strongly suggest a change in envoy. I'd recommend skipping the possession tile as its more for a tank build and not needed for a dps build reaper. This is the envoy I prefer, but can be adjusted depending on your preference. I only take 3 combos, because one is for the movespeed boost, but this can be left out and switched for a crit tile. I use the combos for reaper/ shuri because they do decent dmg, and one is a dark skill which will be boosted with 45% dark dmg eido.

You put a lot of atk spd in your envoy. tbh you'd be better off putting points in either crit dmg / crit depending on your ability to cap crit dmg. Those stats will benefit you more especially with awakening coming out.

During Awakening Patch Its Better To Use Crit Dmg VS Boss Since In Upcoming Awakening Patch sl1 Reaper Weapon Does Not Give Crit Dmg VS Boss And If Ur Using A sl1 Shuri Weapon As Sub Then U Will Have Very Bad Crit Dmg VS Boss Because Shuri sl1 Weapon Only Gives Crit Rate 20%VS Boss Resulting In A Very Low Crit Dmg VS Boss.SL1 Reaper is also Crit Rate VS Boss 20% Making Using sl1 Shuri Weapon Not Optimal For A Sub Since U Are Losing A Great Amount Of Crit Dmg VS Boss.Ur Base Crit Dmg Cap is 320%(Using Nyquist)And 370% Using 95 Crit Dmg Set Based On This Using Crit Dmg Costume VS Boss Will Be Usefull.During Awakening The Sub Ur Probaly Going To Use Is Bettween Sub Bard /Sub Lancer.Sub Lancer would be usefull to increase dps since Hyme Of Doom Is Dark Skill And Are Affected By Dmg of Dark Skill From Eidos/Mount,Since Lancer Use Marks As A Way Of Activating this Skill its easier to use this rather than relying on Razor Wind Which U Need Chakra To Cast,Sub Lancer Also Have Some Flat Deff Shred Which Reduce Deff With 1 Debuff while Shuriken Toss Deff Shred Stacks up to 5 times which is quite bad because stacking Shuri Deff Shred On Sub Is Time Consuming And Also with 50% speed Shuriken Toss CD is 4.8second and deff shred last for 6 second making it difficult to rotate ur skill because of unreliable deff shred but when ur using sub Lancer its easier because its instanly reduced without the need of stacking the downside of this deff shred is its melee range and also have lower deff shred value than 5 stacks of shuriken toss,There One Massive Downside To Lancer Sub and its the lack of stun, Reaper need a stun eido as a way to remove this downside when using sub lancer Note: U Could Use Marks Awakening If ur nocturnal lifesteal is low And It Provide a decent amount of all stats +.Moving On Sub Bard Is also an option because of heal and 12%detail dmg with stun skill but sl1 bard lacks crit dmg vs boss because it provides dmg reduced 8% from boss and elite.The Down Side Of Sub Bard Is The Lack Of Burst Dmg if ur making a dps reaper and the lack of crit dmg vs boss from the sl1 weapon

Notes:Lulos 10% Chance To Deal Extra Dmg Is 30%dmg zeal effect

Alia:1%unnerf Lifesteal+X Recover HP Which Works Greatly with right path since the pool are affected by this lifesteal effect

U Could Also Use Some Demon Pact Costume Enchantment As A Switch Costume When U Summon Ur Demon